Wizzmom Peeps 2024 Upstate NKF Walk
Bill Vanlare
Bill VanLare
Why I Walk
I walk because too many families (like mine) are coping with this devastating chronic illness, and thousands more will face an unexpected kidney disease diagnosis in the year to come.
My wife’s journey started in the spring of 2023. She was being followed up for a possible problem by having 2 ultrasounds. She was told things were good but she needed to see about a large cyst that was on her left kidney. Fast forward, the final result was she indeed had a 10 cm cyst on her left kidney, she was missing her right kidney (congenital defect), she had a congenital defect in her left kidney and she was in stage 3 kidney disease. Her life changed forever. She had more diagnostic testing and 2 surgeries. She will always have this disease and she will not get any better than she is now. She was told by doctors how lucky she was that this was found out when it was. She could have gone into renal failure at any given time. We are grateful and she choose to pay it forward through this fundraiser.
I walk to support the lifechanging work of the National Kidney Foundation:
- To ensure that families will have a place to turn when they need answers.
- To keep up the fight for policy changes to protect kidney patients and living donors.
- To drive innovation in transplantation and get more loved ones off the kidney transplant waitlist.
Please walk with us September 15, 2024 and fundraise-or-support our efforts with a generous donation to improve the lives of kidney patients in our community and across the country.
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